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Goeppertia

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Goeppertia

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Goeppertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics. It contains 243 accepted species, many of which were until recently assigned to Calathea. It was first described by Nees von Esenbeck in 1831, who erroneously erected another genus Goeppertia in 1836, which has now been synonymized with Endlicheria. In 1862 August Grisebach described another genus Goeppertia; this has now been synonymized with Bisgoeppertia.

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PHYLUM

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
FamilyGentianaceae
Observations recorded580,578,322

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
474
With media
78
Family
Marantaceae
Collections
US, NY
Recorded in
Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia

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Goeppertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics. It contains 243 accepted species, many of which were until recently assigned to Calathea. It was first described by Nees von Esenbeck in 1831, who erroneously erected another genus Goeppertia in 1836, which has now been synonymized with Endlicheria. In 1862 August Grisebach described another genus Goeppertia; this has now been synonymized with Bisgoeppertia.

The genus name of Goeppertia is in honour of Heinrich Göppert (1800–1884), a German botanist and paleontologist.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goeppertia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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